Medicalização da vida: a compreensão de professores e educadores especiais de Santa Maria sobre o processo que leva a medicalização na infância

Abstract

This study refers to the growing process of medicalization in everyday life and its contemporary expressions in the field of school education, as well as the factors attach to the identification by health professionals and education as symptoms of diseases and disorders, in a municipality inland the Rio Grande do Sul /RS. This study sought to strengthen the relationship between health and education through intersectoral joints in the territories and a greater understanding of these professionals who work directly with children and adolescents on aspects of medicalization and how to set up the network of mental health of children and adolescents in accordance with what is established by the Public Policy. A qualitative results research project, this work follows the critical hermeneutic theory, using a focal group as instrument for the gathering of data with teachers and special educators of public schools. The main results obtained to understanding of educators about the process of medicalization of childhood, and its relation to the sense of failure teacher, families and students. This shows that the learning process is multi determined and depends on several factors. It is necessary to look at the social determinants of education, health, well-being and inclusion of students and teachers for a possible change in reality promoting school participation in the community. The results obtained are expected to create conditions for the discussion of public policies aimed at rampant facing the medicalization of children and promote a critical view of the pedagogical processes, tensing in the prevention of the aspects considered as symptoms of learning disorders, through processes leading to better training of teachers and health professionals who deal directly and indirectly with referrals and diagnoses of children.